1975 Betamax Promotional Video Profiles The TiVo Of The 1970's

With so much talk about Blu-ray's defeat of HD DVD in the HD disc format war lately, we just had to show you this cool 1975 promotional video for Sony's Betamax. If you're a hardcore videophile that can remember back to the 1970's and 1980's you'll remember the Betamax/VHS format war from which VHS emerged victorious. The only remnant left of Betamax now is the slang term "betamaxed" referring to a product with a relatively short shelf life. I guess HD DVD was betamaxed.

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